State v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 378 - People v. Collins (1986), 233 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Patrick (2009)
52 state decisions — followed in 15 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People v. Sandoval · People v. La Ruffa
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We believe trial courts should rule on the admissibility of prior crime impeachment evidence as soon as possible after the issue is raised. It is only after a ruling on the admissibility of a conviction that the prosecutor and defense counsel can make an informed decision how to effectively try the case."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not realistic or necessary for a defendant to have to wait until he is on the stand to find out whether he will be impeached with prior crime evidence,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burnside v. State · State v. Busby“"In future cases, to preserve the issue for review, a defendant must at least * * * (1) establish on the record that he will in fact take the stand and testify if his challenged prior convictions are excluded; and (2) sufficiently outline the nature of his testimony so that the trial court, and the reviewing court, can [intelligently consider the ruling]."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.